When we are not here our condo is rented out, so we have some locked cabinets for stuff we value and stuff we don't want to leave out. Coming back is fun as we start opening it up and ooohing and ahhhhing over things we haven't seen for 6 months. I love my tigers, we do leave this one out as it is large and we leave it on a top shelf. My baseline on this is if it would fit in a normal suitcase and I really, really love it then we lock it up.

This little tiger we lock up, his face is so cute and his legs look too long for his body so he really looks like a baby.

We used to be rabid scuba divers, before I retired we would take off 5 or 6 times a year for someplace with warm water and good diving. Most of the time in the last few years we came here to Akumal, the diving is great and the water is warm and we loved it here. We still love it here (with more reservations though) but we don't go diving much anymore. If we go out twice a year it's more than usual. In our locked cabinets we had a lot of dive equipment so this year we pulled it all out and decided what needed to go. It's good stuff, bought when I was working and had more money, and bought when I used it a lot and wanted the best. We traded Mimi's stuff to some friends, part to a dive guide we know and part to other people she knows that will sell it. I'm going to leave my stuff for my son when he comes down here and he can decide what he wants what he doesn't. Mimi and I decided that it was just sitting and getting out of date and on the occasions we do go diving, we can rent some gear.

Since selling our house and getting rid of most of our stuff, we are a lot better at letting things go now. This was freeing. Plus, now I have all that extra room in the cabinets for new stuff!